IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Havard.Eidnes at runit.sintef.no schrieb per Mail :

> > The importance of enforcing name-based hosting is high, but I
> > also get the feeling the amount of wasted address space
> > elsewhere on the Internet (/16s allocated to big institutions
> > years ago that are firewalled other than a handful of /24s?)
> > should be a higher priority - not saying that RIPE did these
> > allocations of course!
> 
> The past sins of others is no excuse to continue sinning.

Right. But this is not a religious matter.

So that are not "sins" but "errors", and errors can often be corrected.

I agree with all efforts to minimze wasting adress space in the future
(so I agree to name-based Web-hosting...) but there should also be
the same effort in examine errors (wasted adress space) of the past, 
and correcting them, if possible.


> Besides, there was a time before "classless" technology became
> widespread or even available, and there actually existed prior IP
> address allocation policies from the registries (or back to when
> there only was a single registry) which were substantially different
> from the ones we have in use today.

Right, and there also was a time when everyone thought, 2 year-digits 
in a date-field are enough. ;)
That is no excuse to not try to correct the errors of the past.


regards,
Andreas

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